"I'm going to finish my damn story!": a support thread

[StillStunned]

That's enough whining for now. Back to it!

 

[Statius]

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How can I when YOU keep interrupting me with your funny ass Monty Python memes?

Huh Tim? Huh? Answer me that!

 

[StillStunned]

How can I when YOU keep interrupting me with your funny ass Monty Python memes?

Huh Tim? Huh? Answer me that!

 

[Statius]

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[pink_silk_glove]

Difficult real life week, had no time to write. Now the weekend is here and just got a big sex scene done (I'm sure that it will need important edits), 1000+ more words, up over 49k. Hopefully a couple more scenes wrapped up in the next 24 hours or so.

And 1300 words in point form to frame up this scene to end chapter 5. Up over 50k now. This will be a long scene once I get it fleshed out, probably the longest of the entire novel but we'll see. This will take a few hours to flesh out, probably a couple of long sittings, but now my weekend is over and back to the grind.

 

[Statius]

You should have said it was your great aunt's computer that you found after she died. You never knew she was a writer, and now you're curious about what she wrote.

There's a show on Netflix that just used this gag. 'Nobody Wants This'.

 

[StillStunned]

I've managed to add nearly 600 words today, on top of about 750 yesterday. The big fight scene, which I was dreading. It's just reached its climax, with a sacrifice to galvanise the party. It feels like it's all heading towards the ending from here.

 

[Statius]

I've managed to add nearly 600 words today, on top of about 750 yesterday. The big fight scene, which I was dreading. It's just reached its climax, with a sacrifice to galvanise the party. It feels like it's all heading towards the ending from here.

WAY

TO

GO

!!!!

 

[NaughteeDragon]

FINALLY! In October I committed to re-skinning a fanfic piece I wrote between 2001 and 2018. I made that choice because it would allow me to publish 1 chapter per week for 16 weeks, which would give me time to build up a backlog of other stuff to release.
I finally finished the last re-write on the last chapter. This means there are now 3 chapters pending beta-reading then this project is done! Hopefully it'll pick up some more readers after I post the last chapter. Also hoping that my ratings pickup once I get past the chapters where one of the male characters wants to explore his bi-curiosity. I put it in there knowing that it would be an unpopular choice, but damn.

 

[VerbalAbuse]

Someone pull my ears!

how long are they?

 

[VerbalAbuse]

wants to explore his bi-curiosity

you mean his anal?

 

[NaughteeDragon]

you mean his anal?

Actually, he’s interested in what it would be like to suck cock. His wife introduces him to anal when she pegs him in chapter four. She’s all for it since she gave up her ass to him years before.

 

[designatedvictim]

Figured I'd pop in here, as you suggested in my earlier Sick of working on my WIP thread.

This morning I had three Placeholders in my WIP. (e.g. [Insert Scene Here] bits)

Down to one, now, with about 700 net words added since Friday's snapshot.

Of course, this last one will require the most work.

Then a last re-read before submitting. Hopefully for the weekend.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Okay, hit publish! Somehow, I thought editing would make it shorter, but it went from 22k to 23k, so who the hell knows what's going on.

Very, very different type of story than I'm used to writing. No idea how this is going to be received, but I'm glad I finished it. Even though I went for cutesy rom-com, it still ended up being slightly dark and very cerebral. To be fair, it's not THAT dark, but it's dealing with anxiety, the pressures of masking, and being presentable to normies, so dark-adjacent.

But it's done! So... yay, me.

 

[StillStunned]

Figured I'd pop in here, as you suggested in my earlier Sick of working on my WIP thread.

This morning I had three Placeholders in my WIP. (e.g. [Insert Scene Here] bits)

Down to one, now, with about 700 net words added since Friday's snapshot.

Of course, this last one will require the most work.

Then a last re-read before submitting. Hopefully for the weekend.

 

[StillStunned]

Okay, hit publish! Somehow, I thought editing would make it shorter, but it went from 22k to 23k, so who the hell knows what's going on.

Very, very different type of story than I'm used to writing. No idea how this is going to be received, but I'm glad I finished it. Even though I went for cutesy rom-com, it still ended up being slightly dark and very cerebral. To be fair, it's not THAT dark, but it's dealing with anxiety, the pressures of masking, and being presentable to normies, so dark-adjacent.

But it's done! So... yay, me.

 

[StillStunned]

I've finished the first version of my story! Added 1.1k words this morning to get the party to the end and hopefully a satisfying conclusion. I'll spend the afternoon editing, and then it can be submitted.

 

[Statius]

Okay, hit publish! Somehow, I thought editing would make it shorter, but it went from 22k to 23k, so who the hell knows what's going on.

Very, very different type of story than I'm used to writing. No idea how this is going to be received, but I'm glad I finished it. Even though I went for cutesy rom-com, it still ended up being slightly dark and very cerebral. To be fair, it's not THAT dark, but it's dealing with anxiety, the pressures of masking, and being presentable to normies, so dark-adjacent.

But it's done! So... yay, me.

Congratulations!

 

[Statius]

I've finished the first version of my story! Added 1.1k words this morning to get the party to the end and hopefully a satisfying conclusion. I'll spend the afternoon editing, and then it can be submitted.

Celebration https://share.google/fEjvUkFcI4x3FZ8xr

 

[StillStunned]

I've finished the first version of my story! Added 1.1k words this morning to get the party to the end and hopefully a satisfying conclusion. I'll spend the afternoon editing, and then it can be submitted.

 

[StillStunned]

Time to take a break from writing, I think. Just a couple of days, then on with "My Wife the Witch" for @Omenainen's Pink Orchid event.

 

[Statius]

Time to take a break from writing, I think. Just a couple of days, then on with "My Wife the Witch" for @Omenainen's Pink Orchid event.

Oooh a witchy craft story! Fun. And yes, you must call it witchy craft; it's funnier and more fun. I insist (says the guy procrastinating his own story - in my defense real life is getting in the way ATM).

 

[anthrodisiac]

Hey! Valentine's Day story is published now! Exciting! Also scary, because I'm a lot less certain how it'll be received than my other stuff.

Also cranked out a 750-word story for that contest. It's a lot more like my old stuff (pre-erotica... prerotica?), weird, kinda dark humor (someone explodes), which is very different than the more muted, introspective, cerebral pieces I've been doing for almost everything I've posted here. I rarely make myself laugh when I write something, there's one line that sends me into a giggle fit every time I read it, without fail.

God, I missed this.

 

[StillStunned]

Hey! Valentine's Day story is published now! Exciting! Also scary, because I'm a lot less certain how it'll be received than my other stuff.

Also cranked out a 750-word story for that contest. It's a lot more like my old stuff (pre-erotica... prerotica?), weird, kinda dark humor (someone explodes), which is very different than the more muted, introspective, cerebral pieces I've been doing for almost everything I've posted here. I rarely make myself laugh when I write something, there's one line that sends me into a giggle fit every time I read it, without fail.

God, I missed this.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I managed another 322 words yesterday!